All articles & reviews tagged with gender-identity

By Sharon James

Article

March 2019

In the last edition of ET, I examined the transgender agenda. What is it? Where did it come from? Where is it heading? This time I ask, how should churches respond? I suggest there are at least eight things we must do. 1. We need to provide biblical teaching about God’s good purpose in creating men and women. Our congregations need to be equipped to respond to the demands for ‘transgender rights’ with scriptural truth. The transsexual maintains that their felt ‘gender’ overrides biological reality. But our creation design teaches us that God has made us male and female to reflect his glory in every...

8 ways your church should respond to the transgender agenda

News

November 2018

BBC Manchester filmed a school teacher in Warrington, Cheshire, instructing her class of six-year-old pupils to write gay love letters, and posted the video on its Facebook page, sparking a social media storm. The video shows teacher Sarah Hopson from Bewsey Lodge Primary School telling the children to imagine they were Prince Henry and that they should write love letters to his manservant Thomas. She said: ‘You’re going to tell Thomas why it’s a brilliant idea for him to marry you’. In its subtitles the BBC said approvingly: ‘This school teaches children about LGBT relationships from an early age. This class of six-year-olds is learning...

Society – Six-year-olds made to write gay love letters

News

January 2018

Recent figures from the Tavistock Clinic, Britain’s only NHS gender identity service for under-18s, showed referral rates have rocketed from just 97 in 2009 to more than 2,000 in 2016-17, with 1,400 last year from girls. One parent told the Mail on Sunday anonymously that, two years ago, she received a call from her 15-year-old daughter’s school requesting an urgent meeting, because the teenager was claiming she was ‘stuck in the wrong body’. She discovered the school had referred the matter to the NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, where a psychologist diagnosed the girl with early signs of depression. However, the girl was...

Ethics – Pseudo-medicine

News

December 2017

It is extremely rare for children to have true gender identity concerns, a lead clinician at a gender identity clinic for children has stated. According to Professor Gary Butler, clinical lead at the UK Gender Identity Development service, only ‘one child born in every 20,000’ experiences transsexual feelings. He made the comments during a debate on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, in which concerns were raised over the disproportionate media coverage and government-led push of transsexual ideology, given the rarity of gender questioning among children. During the debate, Lord Robert Winston, emeritus professor of fertility studies at Imperial College London, warned that scientists don’t understand...